Article: AMD's Mobile Strategy
By: Seni (seniike.delete@this.hotmail.com), December 20, 2011 6:24 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Wes Felter (wesley@felter.org) on 12/20/11 wrote:
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>Seni (seniike@hotmail.com) on 12/20/11 wrote:
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>>-Individual flash chips are not fast, so you can't use just one. It takes four
>>to eight of them just to match the sequential write speed of a conventional hard drive.
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>In theory this is being fixed by ONFI 3.x and the like; one or two chips should
>at least match a hard disk.
Nope. ONFI 3 only helps read speeds. It does nothing for writes.
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>Seni (seniike@hotmail.com) on 12/20/11 wrote:
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>>-Individual flash chips are not fast, so you can't use just one. It takes four
>>to eight of them just to match the sequential write speed of a conventional hard drive.
>
>In theory this is being fixed by ONFI 3.x and the like; one or two chips should
>at least match a hard disk.
Nope. ONFI 3 only helps read speeds. It does nothing for writes.